Norman Abbott
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday11 July 1922
Died9 July 2016 (age 93)
Place of birthNew York City, New York, USA
Known credits43
Biography
Norman Abbott (July 11, 1922 – July 9, 2016) was an American vaudevillian, actor, producer and television director. Abbott was born in New York City, where his uncle, comedian Bud Abbott, and his mother raised him. His early experience in entertainment was as a vaudeville performer, including summers working the 'borscht circuit" in resorts in the Catskill Mountains of New York. In the early 1940s, he and Pat Costello (brother of Lou Costello) worked as stand-ins for the better-known act during filming of Who Done It? (1942).[3] During World War II, Abbott served as a member of the original…
Empire of the Censors
1995 · Self
Charles in Charge
1984 · Director
A Love Letter to Jack Benny
1981 · Director
Nobody's Perfect
1980 · Director
California Fever
1979 · Director
Working Stiffs
1979 · Director
Angie
1979 · Director
Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas
1977 · Director
Fish
1977 · Director
NBC: The First Fifty Years
1976 · Creative Consultant
Alice
1976 · Director
When Things Were Rotten
1975 · Director
Welcome Back, Kotter
1975 · Director
That's My Mama
1974 · Director
Once Upon a Tour
1972 · Director
Once Upon a Tour
1972 · Producer
Sanford and Son
1972 · Director
Film '72
1971 · Self
Nanny and the Professor
1970 · Director
Love, American Style
1969 · Director
The Brady Bunch
1969 · Director
Room 222
1969 · Director
Jack Benny's Bag
1968 · Director
Blondie
1968 · Director
Adam-12
1968 · Director
The Last of the Secret Agents?
1966 · Director
The Last of the Secret Agents?
1966 · Story
The Last of the Secret Agents?
1966 · Producer
Get Smart
1965 · Director
Karen
1964 · Director
The Munsters
1964 · Director
McHale's Navy
1962 · Director
I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
1962 · Director
Dennis the Menace
1959 · Director
The All-Star Christmas Show
1958 · Director
Leave It to Beaver
1957 · Director
Bachelor Father
1957 · Director
Anything Goes
1954 · Radio Announcer
Walking My Baby Back Home
1953 · Doc
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Self
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
1948 · Dialogue Coach
Keep 'Em Slugging
1943 · Ape
Who Done It?
1942 · 'Murder at Midnight' Organist
The Affairs of Martha
1942 · Newsboy (uncredited)
Grand Central Murder
1942 · Whistling Messenger (uncredited)
Rio Rita
1942 · Hotel Laundry Boy (uncredited)
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